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Paul Graham shares his thoughts on how to evaluate/understand startups.

A Basic interpreter for the Altair? How could that ever grow into a giant company? People sleeping on airbeds in strangers’ apartments? A web site for college students to stalk one another? A wimpy little single-board computer for hobbyists that used a TV as a monitor? A new search engine, when there were already about 10, and they were all trying to de-emphasize search?

Interesting source of funds for the Church. Few passing London tourists would ever guess that the premises of Bulgari, the upmarket jewelers in New Bond Street, had anything to do with the pope. Nor indeed the nearby headquarters of the…

Less than 2 weeks ago Yandex launched what could have been the search that Facebook lacked. News from last week. Yandex Has Secretly Built A Killer Facebook Search Engine App Codenamed “Wonder” pocket.co/sGsLv 1/2 — Suman De (@sumande) January 16,…

There are somethings that still needs the good old human brain to work well. Even in the world of search technology. Human computation solves problems that make algorithms stumble, and matches trending topics to relevant advertising. Real-time search is hard.…

A fairly pessimistic analyst thinks that there is a chance that Facebook could be worth triple of what it is today if it were to fulfill it’s potential. Most interesting of those potential areas, besides disruptive social advertising and user…

Meg Whitman reveals how badly HP was managed, hints at pain to come in their most recent analyst call. It is truly disheartening to see a giant fall this way. And especially so having worked there for some time. The…